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• QBE GRADUATE PROGRAM 2025
• PERMANENT ROLE | SYDNEY | HYBRID WORKING
• GRADUATE PROGRAM OVERVIEW
• 18 months | 3 different teams | 6-month experiences

Our award-winning graduate program has been running for many years with huge success. Graduates are hired as permanent employees, with the first 18-months spent on the graduate program experiencing three different teams across our business, known as ‘rotations’. In addition to three rotations, graduates progress through a structured learning and development plan, have access to senior leaders, and spend time with their graduate cohort forming meaningful and long-lasting connections. 

Our 2025 graduate program streams include:

• Insurance Underwriting
• Technology
• Data Analytics

INSURANCE UNDERWRITING

Insurance underwriting is a highly technical skill set that is critical to our business.  This graduate program stream focuses on business insurance, which can be incredibly complex.  Businesses of all sizes across many industries present their own unique risks and you will learn what to consider before we agree to offer insurance protection to a business customer. 

Underwriting is unique in that it offers the best of both worlds – a role where you can build strong technical skills through analysis and underwriting practices, and advanced communications skills as your success in this role will rely on effectively working with many different stakeholders. 

As an insurance underwriting graduate, you’ll work in three different underwriting teams, experiencing different lines of insurance and different types of customers across many industries.

TECHNOLOGY

Our Technology stream has been designed for aspiring developers with many different developer angles to explore. As a global organisation, we span a large technology landscape which means there are vast opportunities on offer for our graduates. These experiences could include digital developer, application developer, integration developer, and data developer. Additionally, we have numerous other avenues to explore within technology which include tech architecture, project management as well as technology risk management. As we are in an exciting time of modernising our business, there is no better moment to join us in our journey to become a future fit and modern insurer. 

DATA AND ANALYTICS

Our data and analytics graduate program stream has been designed for graduates serious about a career in data. Across your three graduate 6-month rotations, you’ll learn about QBE’s overall data strategy and governance, delve into data science and machine learning, and learn how to create data products and services that deliver business insights. Equally important as your technical skills and knowledge, you will learn how a large and complex organisation operates and how to effectively communicate with different stakeholders, creating the perfect environment for you to develop into a well-rounded and trusted data professional. Some of the activities you can expect to experience include:

• Data quality and management, data and AI ethics, data governance and policies.
• ELT and data modelling.
• Data pipelines, validation, and testing.
• Data analytics and visualisation.
• Machine learning.
• Traditional programming.
• Tactical problem solving and presenting.
• This list is not exhaustive. Your interests play a role in navigating your graduate program experience.

GRADUATE LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT 

Your skill and career development are a key focus for the entire graduate program and beyond. Some of the ways you will learn include:

• Experiencing our business from three different perspectives across your graduate rotations.
• Formal classroom-style training, always with a practical application.
• Digital learning pathways designed for the graduate cohort and your program stream more specifically.
• Informal learning through cohort activities and initiatives.
• Unlimited access to digital learning content, many courses with official certifications.
• Your support network: graduate program lead, graduate buddy, rotation leaders, technical buddies, graduate networks (program stream and wider cohort).
• Networking and public speaking opportunities.

ABOUT QBE

We can never really predict what’s around the corner, but at QBE we’re asking the right questions to enable a more resilient future – helping those around us build strength and embrace change to their advantage. We’re an international insurer that’s building momentum towards realising our vision of becoming the most consistent and innovative risk partner. 

And our people will be at the centre of our success. We’re proud to work together, and encourage each other enable resilience for our customers, our environment, our economies and our communities. With more than more than 13,000 people working across 27 countries, we’re big enough to make a real impact, but small enough to provide a friendly workplace, where people are down-to-earth, passionate and kind. 

We believe this is our moment – what if it was yours too? Your career at QBE — let’s make it happen!

ELIGIBILITY 

Please view each stream application page to review eligibility criteria. 

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